Space may be the final frontier, but our ocean still remains largely to be explored. Although our understanding of this enormous body of water is greater now than it was, say, 100 years ago, the ocean is still an enigmatic ...

In Watcher of the Dark, Author Joseph Nassise expertly carries on the exploits of his vision-impaired protagonist, Jeremiah Hunt. The author incorporates information from the two previous books in the series with fine precision. Although no prior reading is required to ...

The terms “dark fantasy” and “horror” are often considered interchangeable. The pronounced fantasy elements in “dark fantasy” can help draw some distinctions between the concepts. In Dead Set by Richard Kadrey, out from Harper Voyager, horror indeed plays a significant ...

Ramsey Campbell is a multiple-award winning, esteemed horror author, and his latest novel, Ghosts Know, shows off his considerable writing skills in a tour-de-force study of paranoia run amok. The book hearkens back to another of Campbell’s studies of mental ...

John Ajvide Lindqvist is a kinky romantic. The author of Let the Right One In grooves on romance that is steeped in bizarre circumstance and odd couplings. With his short story collection, Let the Old Dreams Die, now out from ...

On July 17th, the first entirely digital comic book was released on all formats by Asylum Press. The comic, Undead Evil focuses on studious recluse Alfred Carter as he discovers the dark roots of his own family tree. After a ...

“Today, O wonderous reader of the 21st century, we continue to seek out that which is most weird and unsettling, for your own edification and alarm. All writers of such stories are prophets.” This epigraph, placed next to the extensive ...

“The Gothic imagination is eminently theatrical.” In this treatise, from the book Bram Stoker, Dracula and the Victorian Gothic Stage, author Catherine Wynne reflects upon the symbiotic relationship between Bram Stoker’s experiences working in theatre and his writing of fiction; ...

Is it an oxymoron to state “Here’s gleeful news: an updated version of a poetry collection written by The Pied Piper of Morbidity”? This new edition of Thomas Ligotti’s Death Poems is indeed cause for horror fans to rejoice. But ...